New West Ham boss Sam Allardyce knows he will be sacked if he does not guide them into the Premier League. He told BBC Radio 5 live's Sportsweek: "It is a massive burden on my shoulders but that's why I do the job.
"It's my responsibility to get them there and if I don't I'll be sacked [but] I've got the experience to get the best out the players."
The Hammers are also due to switch from Upton Park to Stratford, east London for the 2014/15 season and Allardyce expects the club's owners, David Gold and David Sullivan, to make a success of the move.
"We have got stability in the owners," he continued.
"They are few and far between as they are from this country, their businesses are in this country and they are West Ham fans.
"If they want to build something sustainable they are going to have to build facilities at the same level as Arsenal, Chelsea and Tottenham.
"As an academy of football, which West Ham is renowned for, we must put state of the art facilities, to go with the stadium, into the training complex."
